Section 26 Governing Houses and Mausoleums
After receiving Fan Yongzhuang, we soon arrived in Fangling County!
Han Cheng led a few soldiers to greet me at the city gate, and the people also braved the snow to come, and the city gate was very lively around it, this mausoleum felt like my hometown, I seemed to be particularly popular here, and I also felt particularly cordial!
I heard that I am coming to Fangling, Li Junchang and the leader of the horse hunt brought a lot of chickens and sheep to celebrate for me, I heard that these chickens and sheep are newly produced in Changwei this year, and under the settlement of Li Junchang, the people of Changwei finally lived a comfortable and stable life!
In the lobby of the county office, the officials built a large bonfire, and we chatted non-stop while roasting mutton!
Li Junchang was very excited, and he kept describing to me: "Changwei County has begun to take shape, and a new city will appear soon, which is the favor of the prince and all the people, and should be admired by the people of Changwei for all generations!"
I smiled and said: "The old-timers are highly respected, and the officials of any county are a little overkill! Today, I am here for the old-timers, and the old-timers should stay in Fangling, and first be my right-hand man of General Han Cheng! In the future, when this king stabilizes the three places of Hanzhong, Baima, and Bajun, the old-timers can come to my fiefdom to show their ambitions!"
Li Junchang smiled gloomily after hearing this, and replied very implicitly: "Thank you for your love, the old man is now old, and the ambition in his heart is still the same as it was back then, and I don't know if the old man can survive to that day!"
I comforted him and said: "The old-timers should not be sad, but should put the body first! This king has always done things quickly, and he will not let the old-timers wait too long! Just if you want to settle the land of our three counties, you should first settle Hanzhong, and if you want to settle Hanzhong, you should first stabilize Fangling! This is complementary to each other, Fangling is unstable and everything is difficult, if Fangling is stable, we will be half the success!"
Li Junchang was taken aback after hearing this, he looked at Han Cheng, and then frowned and asked, "What does the prince mean by this? Could it be a hidden mystery? The old man is not very clear, and he still hopes that the prince will guide him!"
I nodded, and slowly explained: "This king might as well tell you frankly, I am not an immortal, but also a mortal body! Although this king has a plan for the rule of officials, he has not experienced it after all, and I don't know if it is feasible! Therefore, General Han is stationed in Fangling, and starts with Fangling, and then tries in Hanzhong after it is effective, and if Hanzhong is also successful, it can be implemented in various places!"
After hearing this, Li Junchang nodded silently and began to think about it non-stop! Han Cheng suddenly said to me: "It turns out that the prince is so deployed, the last general is stupid, and he almost missed the prince's big thing!"
I shook my head and replied: "No! What General Han said in the Dahua Palace is also the intention of this king, but the matter of the rule of this official is the most important thing! Therefore, I have come to Fangling to find the two lords to discuss, and I must ask Senior Li to fully assist General Han and properly settle the two counties of Fangling, Chang and Wei!"
Li Junchang nodded and replied: "If the prince has instructions, the old man should do his best!
I nodded and replied: "We should take the following as the main principle: stabilize the hearts of the people, recruit the displaced people to clear the wilderness, open markets to protect the merchants, strive to ensure that all the people have land to cultivate, and eradicate the evil trend of the squires tyrannizing the land and disturbing the people! As for the opening of canals and irrigation and many other things for the benefit of the people, Senior Li should be better than this king, and this king will not mention much!"
Li Junchang nodded and said, "The old man understands! When the old man writes it in bamboo slips, don't forget it!"
After speaking, he called people to come and go with bamboo slips and pen and ink, spread out the bamboo slips and began to remember them in turn!
I continued to explain to General Han, and slowly explained to him: "Fangling is bordered by Nanyang and Jingchu in the east, and after I return to the west from Luoyang, there will be displaced people entering the west one after another! General Han has a particularly heavy responsibility to garrison Fangling, and he must also strive to ensure the smooth westward entry of the displaced people, so that they can flow into Yongzhou, Hanzhong, Bajun and other places in an endless stream, this is the foundation of the great Yong's rejuvenation of the country and the country, the general must remember!"
Han Cheng nodded violently after hearing this, and replied: "The last general obeys the order, listening to the prince say this, the last general suddenly opens, and knows that Fang Ling is the most important thing!"
I smiled and continued: "Fangling is also west of Yongzhou, which is the place where Yongzhou must pass through on its way to the Central Plains, and there are many rebellions in the Yongguo Dynasty, and there are also villains who engage in fornication with the Huns! Therefore, the general also has an important task here, and he should strictly investigate the people who come and go in the court, and must not let the affairs of the court flow eastward, nor let the rebellion escape! If evidence can be obtained from this, this king can eliminate the treacherous villains in the court according to the law, and rectify my Dayong dynasty!"
Han Cheng was shocked after hearing this, and after being stunned for a few seconds, he suddenly replied: "No wonder the Empress Dowager told me that the prince placed the last general in Fangling to reuse it! The last general was dull and ignorant, so he understood the meaning! The last general should be loyal to the death and never live up to the prince's trust!"
I nodded, and then admonished Han Cheng and said: "However, this king also warned General Han first, but you must remember to be loyal to the imperial court, if there is favoritism, I am afraid that this king will not be able to protect you at that time! This king sent Lord Chang to revise the law, and his intention is to rectify the court with the new law, so you must not risk your life! This is the thousand-year-old plan of this king, and General Han is my most trusted general, so you must follow me and conspire with this king for a great cause! When you and I return to the Central Plains, you and I should have the last laugh, and the general must always remember that he must not destroy his future!"
After hearing this, Han Cheng was terrified, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "The prince treats me like a mountain, and I regard the prince as a reborn parent.
I smiled and helped him up and said, "General Han doesn't need to be polite, because he cherishes the general, so I will explain first, I hope that the general can accompany me to make contributions forever, and the general must not think too much!"
Han Cheng smiled ashamedly: "The last general is also sensible, how can he not know the hard work of the prince, the prince has the heart to cultivate the last general, and the last general should obey the king's orders and swear allegiance to the death!"
At this time, Li Junchang smiled slightly: "The relationship between the prince and General Han is comparable to the sun and the moon, and it is rare throughout the ages, the old man can work with the two, and he has no regrets in this life!"
I smiled and said, "Senior Li is also rare, in the future, he will be my left and right arm, how can I envy General Han!"
After that, the three of us laughed together!
Later, on the recruitment of new recruits, I instructed Han Cheng: "Most of the displaced people in the west are in the prime of life, and General Han can select strong and healthy people to enlist in the army.
I'm afraid that they have never heard of this new idea of garrisoning, and now the soldiers in this dynasty are soldiers, and if there is no war, they only eat and do nothing, which is too wasteful of labor! When Mr. Zhuge governed Shu, he used this method to let Shu maintain hundreds of thousands of troops!
I will learn from Mr. Zhuge Lao's method, in this illusory world, the first way to raise troops in the tuntian system!
When Han Cheng and Li Junchang heard what I said, they looked at me dumbfounded, and then the two looked at each other, and then said in unison: "Wonderful, wonderful!"
Li Junchang continued: "The prince is really a god, such a clever move can alleviate the lack of military rations, and also relieve the burden of my people!"
I nodded and said: "That's exactly what I mean! But the soldiers have to train diligently, and the soldiers are not brave and inaction! The Huns are mainly cavalry, and they are fierce and strong, if we want to destroy them, we should also build cavalry! Now that our Yongguo is short of horses, it is not suitable to build cavalry for the time being! This is a great plan of the military state, and we should allow me to plan for it in the future! Now the focus is on raising troops and enriching the people first, and then we can rejuvenate the country and secure the country! After the country is rich and the people are strong, the horses will naturally be easier!"
After listening to this, the two nodded silently, and kept admiring my far-sighted thinking!
I also said to Li Junchang: "The rule of officials is the foundation of the country, and the law is the most important thing! The rule of officials in various parts of Dayong is chaotic, the law is in vain, the people are suffering and the court is unpopular, and the people are also thinking about changes! Senior Li is the official of Fangling, Chang, and Wei counties, and the government of the two counties must be thoroughly rectified, but there must be no favoritism and irregularities, otherwise everything will be in vain, and the rejuvenation of the country and the state will be empty talk!"
Li Junchang nodded, waved his pen and continued to record on the bamboo slips!
I continued to say to him: "In addition to the rule of officials, we should rectify and pay taxes, starting from Fangling, Changwei, and the first to reduce taxes for all the people to the lowest, and only take one-twentieth of what we produce!"
After hearing this, Li Junchang was shocked and hurriedly asked: "One-twentieth of the tax, how can I hand it over to the state treasury if the tax is so small?"
I smiled and said: "When I finish speaking! Reducing taxes is the first step, and then building bazaars in various places, and then collecting taxes from the market! If the people sell more in the bazaar, they will also buy more in the bazaar! Then dredge up the trade road with the Xiongnu on the east side, so that the market merchants will be prosperous, so the tax income from the bazaar will not be less! You believe me, if I govern according to this, my Fanglingchang Wei will definitely become a prosperous land for a long time! At that time, if I am rich in Fanglingchang and Wei, how can I worry about the taxes of the imperial court!"
Li Junchang looked at me suspiciously, obviously he didn't know much about this, and he was also very skeptical that this market would have such great benefits!
Seeing that he was very skeptical about this, I had no choice but to continue to say to him: "Regarding the matter of the merchants in the market, Senior Li should call Wang Xianyuan to come to help, and Wang Xianyuan's talents should also be of great use to me! This is the foundation of real rejuvenation of the country, so don't be careless!"
Li Junchang nodded, since ancient times, the status of businessmen has been very low, and he has always been a person who has never entered the stream! Of course, he will not understand what I mean for a while, how can he know that in modern society, business is equal to economy!
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After chatting with Han Cheng and Li Junchang for several hours, it wasn't until the dead of night that we left the lobby and went to the room to rest!
Early the next morning, Li Junchang and Han Cheng came to me again with a lot of questions, and then I carefully answered them one by one with the wisdom of modern people, and finally the two of them were satisfied with the handwork!
In the morning, I took Han Cheng, Li Junchang and others to inspect various places in Fangling City, and after taking a turn in the city, everyone sat on the altar in the city to rest.
Han Cheng showed a lot of interest in Fan Yong beside me, and he suddenly invited Fan Yong to practice his hands, wanting to see how much he was capable of!
I'm also interested, because I also want to know how many skills Fan Yong has!
The two of them fought on the ground for more than half an hour, this Fan Yong was really brave, although he lost to Han Cheng in the end, but with his skills, he was very suitable for being a general!
I think I chose the right person, his ability should not be under Zhang Jingde, I really have another credible general!